THANK YOU ALL so much for all your wonderful replies! Where else but on PC could anyone hope to receive such loving concern? I am truly touched.

I went in to my clinic earlier this evening & saw one of the doctors. I provided a new urine sample to test. The results should be available on Monday. In the meantime, the clinic will make arrangements for me to see a urologist. The doctor I saw felt this is a good precaution.

One reason for the referral to the urologist, at this time, is something I had not mentioned previously. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer about 15 years ago. As a result of this, I underwent a radical prostatectomy. So I no longer have this gland. In fact, it was this illness that began my slide down into "public" mental illness. Prior to that I had managed to keep my mental health problems to myself & to stumble along from one day to the next.

Following prostate surgery, I had to have a double hernia repair; which I was told is not uncommon following prostate surgery. Then I sustained a serious low back injury which caused me to develop a ruptured disc that impinged the sciatic nerve. I now have sciatica down both legs.

So, all-in-all, I'm kind-of a mess in general. But as a result of my hx of prostate cancer, the physician I saw this afternoon, felt it would be best to proceed with a urologic referral.